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QuickStart Scale Series: Pick and choose the individual scales you want to learn. eBook downloads for $4.95 ea. For Ukulele, Guitar and Bass Guitar.

My Consumer Reports

Here is a page of MY own consumer reports GOOD & BAD.

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Consumer: a person who purchases goods and services for personal use. That's Me

On these pages I'll post my experiences with as a consumer. Over the years we all have had experiences with good companies and products, bad companies and products and down right ugly experiences with companies and products.

Having always admired the Consumer Reports magazine and organization, but not always gone by their recommendations. I thought that I'd do my own.

The Good

Here is a start to the brands, companies and products that I WILL buy from agin, have had great customer service and would recommend.

  • Apple Computer - Been an Apple Macintoch user, programmer and fan since 1987. If it wasn't for Apple and HyperCard I don't think I would be into computer or learned to program them as a professional and now as a hobby.
  • Bare Bones Software - A long time user and I always upgrade to the latest version. Been using BBEdit since version 3.0. Eagerly awaiting the next version.
  • Citizens Bank - Great customer service. They have the feel of your small town local bank.
  • Harleysville National Bank - Our local bank and great service and friendly people.
  • Honda - Great quality and reliable cars. And, now with the New Fit, very affordable with great gas mileage. Daughter's Honda Civic did her very well (170,000 hard miles). She now has a 2008 Honda Sport Fit. And we have a 2009 Sport Fits as well.
  • Toyota - Had a secession of two Toyota Tercels when first married that did us very well. Toyota is always one of the top rated cars.

The Bad & Ugly

Here is a start to the brands, companies and products that I WILL NOT buy from agin, have had lousy customer service and would not recommend, even to my enemies.

Plus - I always wanted a forum for post a #*&$ list of people and companies to watch out for. And with CurtSheller.com getting over 15,000 visitors a month. I now have one.

  • Wachovia Bank - lousy service and hidden (small, small print fees). Not the number 1 in customer service that they advertise

  • LaSalle Bank - This is the mortgage company that our mortgage was sold to (2 time) and they are a pain in the a$$ with the reminders. Especially in 30 years we have never been late with ANY payment to anyone. APR-2008 Update, mortgage sold yet again. We'll see how this bank is.

  • Chevy - Mostly a bad experience with a Chevy Citation and Dames Chevy in Pottstown, PA. But enough to not want a Chevy again.

I would love to not have to deal with car dealers and car salesman and just buy a car online and have it delivered or pickup. The less interaction I have with a can salesman the better.

The Good

 

Apple, Inc.
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
408.996.1010

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Released with much fanfare in January of 1984, the Macintosh was the first affordable computer to include a Graphical User Interface. It was built around the new Motorola 68000 chip, which was significantly faster than previous processors, running at 8 MHz. The Mac came in a small beige case with a black and white monitor built in. It came with a keyboard and mouse, and had a floppy drive that took 400k 3.5" disks--the first personal computer to do so. It originally sold for $2,495.

Text courtesy www.apple-history.com

Everything done on a Macintosh computers. Site is even hosted on mac by MacHighway.

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Bare Bones Software, Inc.
P.O. Box 1048
Bedford, MA 01730
Phone: (781) 687-0700
Fax: (781) 687-0711

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BBEdit is a text editor originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and now for Mac OS X. It is made by Bare Bones Software. BBEdit is not a word processor, meaning it does not have text formatting or page layout features. BBEdit's audience includes programmers and web designers.

Bare Bones Software also made a free and less-featured version of BBEdit called BBEdit Lite. Bare Bones Software discontinued BBEdit Lite at version 6.1 and replaced it with TextWrangler, which initially cost money (though significantly less than BBEdit), but several years later was released for free. BBEdit itself was available at no charge from its initial release in 1991, but went commercial in May 1993 with the release of version 2.5.

BBEdit
Frontier
BBEdit

Bare Bones software. My entire site is "hand coded" using BBEdit. I've been using this software since version 3 (1994)

I don't reccommend that you had code you web site like I did. I started hand coding html around 1995 before there where programs like DreamWeaver, GoLive and Flash. But, I do reccommend you keep your site simple, fast loading and easy to find stuff. The last part, find stuff, can be hard as a site grows.

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Citizens Bank
Citizens Financial Group
Toll Free: 1-877-229-6430 (New England customers)
Toll Free: 1-800-255-6522 (DE, NJ, NY, or PA customers)

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(from their web site ) In 1828, Citizens Financial Group got its start as a small community bank called the High Street Bank in Providence, Rhode Island.

Today, Citizens Financial Group has $159 billion in assets, making it one of the 10-largest commercial bank holding companies in the United States when ranked by assets and deposits. Owned by RBS, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, we have branches in 13 states, including Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Rhode Island. We also have non-branch retail and commercial offices in about 40 states.

Limerick Branch
429 W. Ridge Pike, Limerick, PA 19468
Phone: 610-495-2699

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Harleysville National Bank
Harleysville National Bank & Trust Company
P.O. Box 195
483 Main Street
Harleysville, PA 19438
Toll Free: (888) HNB-2100

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More information available on listings's web site.

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Honda
American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
1919 Torrance Blvd
Torrance, CA 90501-2746
Toll Free: 1-800-999-1009
Fax: (310) 783-3023 (24 Hours)

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Honda Fit
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My daughter Amy just go a new 2008 Honda Fit and after my Hyundai dies I'll be getting my own Fit. Rumor has it that there will be a Hybrid in 2009.

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Toyota
トヨタ自動車株式会社

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
19001 South Western Ave.
Dept. WC11
Torrance, CA 90501
Toll Free: 800-331-4331
Fax: 310-468-7814

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The company was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda as a spinoff from his father's (Sakichi Toyoda) company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. In 1934, while still a department of Toyota Industries, it created its first product Type A engine and its first passenger car (the Toyota AA) in 1936. It is headquartered in Toyota, Aichi and Bunkyo Tokyo, Japan. It also provides financial services through its division Toyota Financial Services and also creates robots besides automobiles. The company along with the original Toyota Industries form bulk of the Toyota Group.

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The Bad

 

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